Pianist Thomas Lymenstull has performed throughout the United States and in Japan, Taiwan, and the People’s Republic of China, and has been heard nationally and internationally on WFMT Chicago, the Voice of America, and National Public Radio. Lymenstull has performed chamber music with Ronald Leonard, Mitchell Lurie, members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Kronos Quartet. He has been featured with orchestras in the United States and China, including the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Lymenstull won first prizes in the Joanna Hodges International Piano Competition and the Fresno Philharmonic Rotary Young Artists Awards, and was a prizewinner in the Washington International Piano Competition and a number of other national and international competitions.

Thomas Lymenstull teaches at the Interlochen Arts Academy, where he has built a studio of young pianists from around the country and the world. His students have won scholarships to Juilliard, Eastman, Peabody, Curtis, Oberlin, and other top-ranking music schools, and have won prizes in numerous state and national competitions.  Lymenstull was formerly Associate Professor at the University of Southern California, where he was also a Teaching Fellow of the USC Center for Excellence in Teaching. Through the support of a Zumberge Faculty Research and Innovation Fellowship, one of USC’s most prestigious research grants, Lymenstull traveled extensively through the People's Republic of China, meeting composers and researching piano music from China. Since his return he has presented lecture recitals on Chinese piano music and has included this repertoire on recital programs.

In addition to his performing and teaching, Lymenstull presents workshops in the field of piano pedagogy, and has written articles for American Music Teacher and California Music Teacher magazines. He has given workshops and masterclasses in Japan, Korea, China, Singapore, and Taiwan, and has returned to teach at the Tunghai University summer music festival in Taiwan for several summers. Lymenstull has presented teacher training workshops for Yamaha Music Education Corporation (USA) and has given presentations and performances at state and national music teachers conventions and piano pedagogy seminars.

Dr. Lymenstull received Bachelor ’s and Master’s degrees and the Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music, and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Southern California. Lymenstull studied piano and conducting on a Fulbright Fellowship at the Hochschule fur Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna, Austria. His piano studies were John Perry, Cecile Genhart, Frank Glazer, Alexander Jenner, and John Simms, chamber music with John Celentano, Samuel Sanders, and members of the Cleveland Quartet, and conducting and opera with Karl Österreicher, Julius Kalmar, Harald Goetz, Natalie Limonick, Robert Spillman, and Hans Beer.